Graded-index silver chlorobromide fibers for the mid-infrared

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3343-3348

  Dekel, Ben Zion ^a   Katzir, Abraham ^b  

^a RUPPIN ACADEMIC CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; GLASS FIBERS; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ATOMIC COMPOSITION; SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; SPECTRAL RANGE; STEP-INDEX FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 20544471692     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.003343     Document Type: Article

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